The task of art is not fact, it is the act of truth.

In 1967 Canadian filmmaker Hugh O’Connor visited the mountains of Central Appalachia to document poverty. A local landlord, who resented the presence of filmmakers on his property, shot and killed O’Connor, in part because of his anger over the media images of Appalachia that had become icons in the nation’s War on Poverty.

via Stranger With A Camera | Appalshop.

The photographer got death, the killer got a year at the county gym. What we do isn’t always dangerous, but we won’t know that until it ends.